Discrepant Engagement - Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing

Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric - black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: and all the birds sing bass; 2. The changing same: black music in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka; 2. To define an ultimate dimness: the poetry of Clarence Major; 4. The world-poem in microcosm: Robert Duncans 'The Continent'; 5. Uroboro's: Robert Duncan's Dante and A Seventeenth Century Suite; 6. Robert Creeley's The Gold Diggers: Projective prose; 7. That words can be on the page: the graphic aspect of Charles Olson's poetics; 8. New series 1 (Folk series): Edward Kamau Brathwaite's New World Trilogy; 9. Limbo, dislocation, phantom limb: Wilson Harris and the Caribbean occasion; 10. Poseidon (Dub version); 11. The unruly pivot: Wilson Harris's The Eye of the Scarecrow; 12. The Imagination of Justice: Wilson Harris's Ascent to Omai; 13. Sound and sentiment, sound and symbol; 14. On edge; 15. Other: from noun to verb; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Nathaniel Mackey, Nathaniel (University of California Mackey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521109994
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10999-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries